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Cleaning Up:  My dryer eats socks!  |
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lawsec03
True Blue Farmgirl
112 Posts
Melissa
Richmond
KY
USA
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Linda Houston
True Blue Farmgirl
538 Posts
Linda
Lake Charles
Louisiana
USA
538 Posts |
 Posted - Jul 13 2006 : 5:53:02 PM
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| Welcome to the club of " Where is the other sock?" I know that I put pairs in the drier and I just get one back. I have no idea where they go, but if anyone can solve thius mystery, I am all ears. |
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Mumof3
True Blue Farmgirl
3890 Posts
Karin
Ellenwood
GA
USA
3890 Posts |
Posted - Jul 13 2006 : 8:45:56 PM
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Occasionally I found that some of our socks has hitchhiked out of the dryer on the back of something or inside a sleeve.  Now that I hang the clothes out, I still find there are missing socks. I think it's just a sick and twisted game they play!!
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Aunt Jenny
True Blue Farmgirl
11381 Posts
Jenny
middle of
Utah
USA
11381 Posts |
Posted - Jul 13 2006 : 8:50:11 PM
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My socks are like that too!! Especially youngest daughter's little socks...they are the worst (smallest in the house)
We have a plastic laundry basket that all clean socks go into and then when one of the kids needs a job they are the sock folder for the day (or week depending )
Jenny in Utah
Inside me there is a skinny woman crying to get out...but I can usually shut her up with cookies
http://www.auntjennysworld.blogspot.com/ visit my little online shop at www.auntjenny.etsy.com |
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Libbie
Farmgirl Connection Cultivator
3579 Posts
Anne E.
Elsinore
Utah
USA
3579 Posts |
Posted - Jul 13 2006 : 10:15:54 PM
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I remember so well growing up when one sock would somehow come back from the laundry without its mate, my mom would tell us that it "went to town." Somehow that just became "what socks do" when they disappear. Isn't it funny the things that jog memories!!! This "went to town" business is coming from the same woman who told my little sister and I that naugahyde (sp?) was "Spam skin." Now that I have a 3-year-old, these things just seem so much more funny to me - they just make me love my mom more and more, knowing that her great sense of humor that I know now has always been there...
XOXO, Libbie
"Nothing is worth more than this day." - Goethe |
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katiedid
True Blue Farmgirl
601 Posts
Kate
West Jordan
Utah
USA
601 Posts |
Posted - Jul 13 2006 : 10:43:12 PM
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Libbie
It is funnier now that you have a child, kid's minds are so cute...I remember my mom call a toot a "rumble in your bumble" Chloe, who is 3 laughs when she toots and I ask her if she has a rumble in her bumble..
I love kids
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Shirley
True Blue Farmgirl
734 Posts
Shirley
Olympia
Wa
USA
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Posted - Jul 14 2006 : 12:05:29 AM
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I been having that lost sock thing going on for years and years now, so I would think that the place they go is getting pretty full, and should be coughing them up here in the near future. LOL
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Buttercup
True Blue Farmgirl
1433 Posts
Talitha
Vermont
USA
1433 Posts |
Posted - Jul 14 2006 : 05:50:04 AM
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LoL Shirley!! I sure hope so!!! With four kids and a hubbie, socks are ALWAYS runnig away!! But never mine...just theirs! I think they just want a break! Wash day is always so much fun trying to hunt em all down and match em up!!  If any of you discover where they really go, let us all know, K?
Hugz!
"If we could maintain the wonder of childhood and at the same time grasp the wisdom of age, what wonder,what wisdom,what life would be ours" |
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bboopster
True Blue Farmgirl
1140 Posts
Betty Jo
West Bend
Wisconsin
USA
1140 Posts |
Posted - Jul 14 2006 : 07:04:05 AM
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Hello,
I'm not sure where they go. When my 5 kids were all home we lost dozens and dozens of socks. Always had a full basket of singles waiting for their mates to come back. When my kids were old enough we bought diaper pins and everyone pinned their pairs together in hope that the sock Gremblin would take the whole pair instead of one. WRONG!!! We still had singles coming out of the dryer. Now that my children are all moved out my husband and I do not have the missing sock problem as bad only about one a laundry day. I now take the single and throw it back through the wash in hopes that it will be reunited with it's mate or disappear also. Naugahyde is Spam skin. I love it!!!!!! Mom's with humor are the best.
Pray for our troops to come home safe and soon.
Enjoying the road to the simple life :>) |
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CabinCreek-Kentucky
True Blue Farmgirl
8529 Posts
Frannie
Green County
Kentucky
USA
8529 Posts |
Posted - Jul 14 2006 : 09:00:03 AM
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DRYERS are 'black holes' .. and someday .. some scientist will discover how to get into them to reclaim BILLIONS of socks! I know a guy who will ONLY buy BLACK socks .. ALL THE SAME .. so he can always match them up!
True Friends, Frannie
CABIN CREEK FARM
KENTUCKY
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Shirley
True Blue Farmgirl
734 Posts
Shirley
Olympia
Wa
USA
734 Posts |
Posted - Jul 19 2006 : 11:49:43 AM
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YAHOO,
One of my socks came back yesterday, wonder where that little sock has been, if only socks could talk. LOL
Well I have to go put them together now before one decides to wander off again.
One down ,500 more to fine. ROFL
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Audrey D Abbott
Farmgirl in Training
34 Posts
Audrey
Williamsport
IN
USA
34 Posts |
Posted - Jul 19 2006 : 4:25:04 PM
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| OK, fess up. Anyone ever have a piece of clothing they have never seen before show up at the end of the dryer cycle? I have my suspicions that I may have brought the pair of jeans that fit no one home from the thrift store, but I sure don't remember them or putting them in the laundry! Perhaps the blue jean planet was full and spit this pair out? |
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Boxbreaker
Farmgirl in Training
16 Posts
Tia
Lancing
TN
USA
16 Posts |
Posted - Jul 19 2006 : 7:45:05 PM
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Nope. No sock pile. For the past several years I've given myself a gift on New Year's Day. I THROW THE WHOLE BASKET AWAY. Yes, I know they should be matched. They can become great crafts. Or dust rags. Or given away. Or whatever. But truth was, they just sat there. In a year's time I got a huge basket sitting around we never could find a match. All of our socks were different and the kids often grew out of them before I could sit and match them all up again. So I started throwing them out.
Now though I have a different system: I buy everyone their own color-coded Hanes. Dad gets black and khaki for work. I always have matches since they are all the same. And when one gets really stained or something, I toss it. No more pile or basket.
My mil thinks I"m pathetic because I "just can't get over this sock problem". But I"m a homeschooling mom to 4 and we have a tremendously full life. I'm okay not getting around to sitting and matching. I'm okay buying new socks a couple of times a year. I"m FREEEEEEEE
But the dreamers of the day are dangerous people because they enact their dreams into reality with eyes wide open. |
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lawsec03
True Blue Farmgirl
112 Posts
Melissa
Richmond
KY
USA
112 Posts |
Posted - Jul 19 2006 : 9:12:31 PM
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Audrey, I certainly have had mysterious clothing show up out of the dryer. I think that every once in a while, the black hole that eats clothes and socks has to spit some out to make room for more!
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Audrey D Abbott
Farmgirl in Training
34 Posts
Audrey
Williamsport
IN
USA
34 Posts |
Posted - Jul 20 2006 : 03:49:05 AM
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| That's always been my theory, too, Melissa! It feels good to know I'm not alone. Now if I could only get over my obsession that "someday I'll find it's mate" and throw out those single socks! |
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theoanne
True Blue Farmgirl
282 Posts
teddie
CARROLLTON
GA
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Posted - Jul 20 2006 : 7:24:41 PM
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Audrey,
I have had clothes 'appear' also. It was when my 4 boys were in high school and middle school. After about the 3rd or 4 th time I started asking. Of course no one knew where they came from. Upon further observation I started to realize these clothes usually appeared after a boy scout or neighborhood campout. At first I thought I should find out who the owner was and return them. Then one day one of their friends came over with one of my boys shirts on. My oldest said I shouldn't worry about it. The boys didn't care and if you lost one you just picked up someone elses.
Now for the socks..... I have had all the same problems as listed above.I bought the boys only gray tube socks.They went from the dryer into the sock basket and if some one wanted a pair they went to get one pair. This way they never all got sorted and you never really knew if there were any leftovers.( I bought gray so I didn't have to always bleach them)
The dryer at our last house ate socks and underwear!!!! One day the dryer would not dry things so my then DH went to the crawl space under the house to check things out. Well the flexible tubing used to vent the dryer was plugged with... guess what.... yes... it was socks and underwear. We never figured out how they got sucked down there, but every year or so he would go clean it out and find more socks.
Now the guys are moved out and fighting their own sock battles. My sweet DH and I have a lost sock basket but usually they appear in a load or two. I'm the one with all the different styles so mine are lost more. His are Brown, Khaki, or white. I must say, men do have a less complicated way of doing things. If I had had 4 girls they would have been having a fit that some one stole their clothes on a campout and I'm sure the socks would have been a much bigger issue too with all the colors and styles.
The good lord knew what he was doing when he gave me east going- guys.
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Buttercup
True Blue Farmgirl
1433 Posts
Talitha
Vermont
USA
1433 Posts |
Posted - Jul 20 2006 : 8:33:05 PM
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Oh my Teddie!!! lol... I laughed so hard after your post.. I had never heard of socks actually being sucked up in the venting system!! Too Funny!! Maybe we should all check our vents!!
Hugz!!
"If we could maintain the wonder of childhood and at the same time grasp the wisdom of age, what wonder,what wisdom,what life would be ours" |
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bboopster
True Blue Farmgirl
1140 Posts
Betty Jo
West Bend
Wisconsin
USA
1140 Posts |
Posted - Jul 25 2006 : 09:03:24 AM
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I hate to brag but...... I just folded a load of whites and EVERY sock had a mate!!!!!! This is a first in my life time of laundry. Hopefully the darks will bring the same luck
Pray for our troops to come home safe and soon.
Enjoying the road to the simple life :>) |
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